Leaving Garou at the galaxy prison for combat practice, Zuke used instant transmission to return to Planet Sadala.
He had already memorized most Saiyans' "ki," so he just had to sense where the most Saiyan "ki" was concentrated to determine Planet Sadala's location.
The purpose of returning to Planet Sadala was simple—he had already tested that Garou could leave the "King's Army" sphere of influence, proving the changes in "King's Army" in this aspect.
Then what needed to be verified next was the functional changes in "King's Army."
If devouring Heroic Spirit EMIYA and absorbing his "Unlimited Blade Works" only gave "King's Army" the ability to let people leave the sphere of influence, he'd be very disappointed.
"I can feel that within the 'King's Army' sphere of influence, I seem to be able to do something..."
Finding an unpopulated training ground on Planet Sadala, Zuke stood in the center of the training ground and began sensing the new abilities of "King's Army" within his body.
When he left Planet Sadala earlier to reach Galactic Patrol headquarters, he felt that his "King's Army's" new ability couldn't activate, showing this ability could only be used within the sphere of influence.
That is, within Dragon Ball world's Planet Sadala, the real world's Zuke's home, One Punch Man world's Hero Association and Monster Association, and Yu-Gi-Oh! card lore world's bridgehead fortress—these several areas.
Of course, Zuke had already planned several other regions, preparing to incorporate them into "King's Army's" sphere of influence later, but that was all for the future.
"The most direct function is of course... like 'Unlimited Blade Works,' summoning large numbers of weapons!"
Soon, Zuke felt what his body's new ability was—he raised his hand, and the next instant, large numbers of swords appeared as if from thin air, stabbing into the surrounding ground.
The originally empty training ground was filled with countless swords in the blink of an eye—these swords' blades were stuck in the earth, as if turning this place into a sword graveyard.
Just like "King's Army," although the ability had mutated, the basic ability of "Unlimited Blade Works" to summon swords still existed.
"These swords should be the Noble Phantasms projected by Heroic Spirit EMIYA. In terms of quality alone, they're almost no different from real Noble Phantasms."
Zuke casually pulled out a sword stuck in the ground, swung it casually, then quickly made an evaluation of these projected Noble Phantasms.
Although Zuke himself wasn't an official Heroic Spirit and had no official Noble Phantasms, he had devoured Gilgamesh and seen large numbers of Noble Phantasms in the "Gate of Babylon."
So in terms of familiarity with Noble Phantasms, he wasn't inferior to other Heroic Spirits—he was even more familiar than many Heroic Spirits and was absolutely qualified to evaluate these projected Noble Phantasms.
"However, these swords don't really help me much. What's more important is the changes to 'Unlimited Blade Works' ability after being devoured by 'Blackbird's Requiem.'"
After playing with the projected Noble Phantasm in his hand for a bit, Zuke casually threw it aside and stopped paying attention.
After all, the quality of these Noble Phantasms was just so-so, not even as good as the average quality of Noble Phantasms in the Gate of Babylon.
Although there were some fairly high-quality weapons among them, they were ultimately just things projected by Heroic Spirit EMIYA. Limited by the Type-Moon world's combat power level, they were just that.
"The ability changes to 'Unlimited Blade Works'... seem related to Projection Magecraft, but somewhat different."
Zuke tried extending his hand, recalling Noble Phantasms he'd encountered before in his mind, then tried using the "Unlimited Blade Works" ability to project them.
The next moment, an ornate scabbard appeared floating from Zuke's hand—if Artoria were here, she'd immediately recognize this as Avalon.
Now Avalon had been placed in Reines' body, so this Avalon was naturally projected by Zuke using the "Unlimited Blade Works" ability.
Although he projected Avalon, it only had its form. Its ability only had weak recovery power, far from reaching the genuine article's standards.
Zuke looked at Avalon in his hand, deep in thought.
"No, I have no theoretical understanding of Avalon at all. I projected it purely based on the impression in my mind, but even so, this thing has basic recovery power..."
Thinking of this, Zuke suddenly felt his mouth go dry—he seemed to have guessed something:
"Does this mean that when I project through 'Unlimited Blade Works'... I don't even need to understand the principles of what I'm projecting, just having a basic impression is enough?"
Normal Projection Magecraft required several steps:
Judging the concept of creation, hypothesizing the basic structure, duplicating the composition materials, imitating the manufacturing technique, sympathizing with the experience of growth, reproducing the accumulated years.
Obviously, to project something, one must at least understand its structure and craftsmanship to reproduce it.
But Zuke's "Unlimited Blade Works" broke this convention—it could project things he only had an impression of—and things projected this way actually had abilities.
Of course, even with an "impression," it seemed he still had to have seen it before, otherwise Zuke would directly project things from other works.
Although the ability would be very weak compared to the original, it was still quite astonishing.
Zuke almost instantly thought of what this ability could be used for.
"Can this ability... be used to project Dragon Balls?"
Zuke's heart beat violently—if he could project things he had an impression of, then couldn't the Dragon Balls he'd touched also be projected?
Even if the projected Dragon Balls' effects were greatly weakened, so what?
He could completely accumulate small gains over time, using large numbers of weakly effective Dragon Balls to make wishes and gradually increase his strength.
"Not only that... if I can't project Dragon Balls, I can also go ask Planet Namek's Grand Elder about the theory of creating Dragon Balls."
Zuke thought to himself—his relationship with the Namekian Grand Elder was pretty good now.
At least judging from the Grand Elder's attitude toward him before, he shouldn't mind helping him to a certain extent.
After understanding the Dragon Balls' structure, projecting Dragon Balls would become easier too, right?
"Just thinking about it is meaningless. Let's try it first."
After fantasizing about the future in his mind, Zuke prepared to start experimenting.
He raised his hand and began recalling the giant spheres he'd seen in space before.
That's right—what he was recalling were the Super Dragon Balls.
If he could project Super Dragon Balls, he wouldn't even need to risk going to the Sixth Universe.
To be continued…